Poem-a-Day
Poem-a-Day is the original, daily poetry series featuring new poems by today’s poets. Produced by the Academy of American Poets, this free digital series is made possible by you, our readers and listeners. Theme music by Kat Rejsek. Audio engineering by Genevieve Shubeck. Learn more about Poem-a-Day and, if you can, please consider supporting this series by making a gift at poets.org/give.
1951
Fenton Johnson: "Rulers"
1 min
1952
Hoa Nguyen: "The Pu Pu Platter Appetizer"
3 min
1953
Joseph Rios: "For Henry's Bar"
4 min
1954
Farid Matuk: "The Butcher’s Fifth Quarter"
3 min
1955
Roberto Tejada: "Night Festival"
5 min
1956
Victoria Guerrero, Anastatia Spicer, and Honora...
7 min
1957
Claude McKay: "French Leave"
2 min
1958
Helen Hoyt: "The Office Building"
1 min
1959
Fanny Howe: "Margo"
3 min
1960
Rachel Levitsky: "Audience"
3 min
1961
Guest Editor Interview: September Guest Editor ...
27 min
1962
TC Tolbert: "What I really want to know is how ...
4 min
1963
Catalina Cariaga: "A Word"
6 min
1964
Joan Retallack: "POLITIES &/or SONNETS"
5 min
1965
John Gould Fletcher: "A Distant Song"
2 min
1966
Georgia Douglas Johnson: "Promise"
1 min
1967
Barbara Jane Reyes: "Brown Girl Creed"
3 min
1968
Darius Atefat-Peckham: "Confessional to Famous ...
5 min
1969
Harmony Holiday: "She leads me to tongues"
4 min
1970
Kyle Dacuyan: "Hunter heart a lonely is the"
6 min
1971
Barton Smock: "Soonisms"
2 min
1972
Walter Everette Hawkins: "The Drowsy World Drea...
2 min
1973
Leonora Speyer: "Summer Sorrow"
2 min
1974
Jennifer Karmin: "work: an ode for the human mi...
3 min
1975
Jalynn Harris: "The Life of a Writer"
3 min